Sticks and stones...
What I’ve got, and what I wish the rest of the “women in tech” community who rage against the misogyny they see everywhere they look could also have, is a blazingly single-minded focus on whatever topic I happen to be perseverating on at the moment. It has kept me awake for days puzzling out novel algorithms and it has thwarted a wannabe PUA at a conference completely by accident. It is also apparently the most crashingly successful defense against attempts to make me feel inferior that has ever been devised. When I’m someplace that says on the label that it’s all about the tech, so am I. I may have come by it naturally, but it is a teachable skill. Not only that, it’s a skill that transforms the places where it’s exercised.
What the professional feminists see as evidence of misogny, e.g. the general hostility to talking about non-tech subjects, is really just classical technical irritation at irrelevancies.
Even the guys who spend their time moaning about wimmins in the clubhouse are generally considered asshats and blowhards; they slowly become marginalized due to complaining eating up time they could have spent programming.
